Case Study: Sundance Film Festival streamlines selection of 12,000 submissions with Dropbox Business

How Dropbox Business powered the 2016 Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival team at the Sundance Institute faces a high‑stakes programming challenge: each year they screen more than 12,000 submissions to choose about 200 official selections. Coordinating thousands of film reviews among programmers and keeping track of evolving feedback had been cumbersome and error‑prone, with multiple spreadsheet versions creating confusion.

By adopting Dropbox Business the festival centralized submission files and a single, real‑time Excel feedback sheet accessible across locations and devices. Secure sharing let staff reliably distribute films to theaters while protecting premieres, streamlining review workflows (about 26 films per programmer per week), reducing confusion, and making the entire selection process faster and more efficient.

Sundance Film Festival

Adam Montgomery

Senior Manager of Programming